Skrankle. General epithet. “You forgot to mail the letters? You skrankle!” “Skrankle-screw! The cable’s out!”
Beg-a-thon. Public broadcasting telethon. “Pleeeeeeeze send us money! We’ll give you this nifty key chain!” Coined by Jerry Krupnik, TV reviewer from the Newark Star-Ledger.
laxinate - that feeling of expectation when you’re using a public toilet with a line behind you, between the moments when you whip it out and actual urination begins.
kasneezle - a sneeze that blows more out of the mouth than the nose. This one gets used quite often at my home.
In my parents’ household, the hedgehog is the term for the large, oaken sideboard in the front hallway, which my mom invented in a fit of lethologia many years ago.
When I was a little kid, I came up with the words “tractionate” and “frictionate” to describe things which had a lot of traction or friction. My parents make fun of me to this day for it.
I’m afraid the most I’ve ever done is come up with the acronym “V.V.” for “Verbal Vomit,” a term invented by a fellow poster on another message board to describe the rantings of a resident troll.
Though I beleive I might have independantly come up with the word “Skitters” to describe any number of otherwise unidentified gangly, fast moving monsters that attack you out of the darkness in a First Person Shooter.
I’ve made up tons of words, but only two that I’ve since seen used by people not known to me (but the word did not exist before I started using it):
Fop: verb, int: to have several windows of different forums and message boards open at once, and post in them one after the other; in other words, to ‘forum hop.’
(Of course, fop also means a dandy, but this is a new meaning. I’ve seen it used a great number of times recently).
Snarkle: verb, int: to laugh snarkily. I have often snarkled at posts on the SDMB.
This one became so rapidly accepted as a word that soon everyone was using it. But I was the first!
Gambophilia: a person who is greatly attracted to legs.
You can have alot of fun with phoney Latin roots. E.g., it says in my Latin-English dictionary that dumus is the Latin word for “bush” (thorny bushes in particular, it says). So…
Dumophilia: a person really enamored with President Bush (Junior or Senior, I guess).
Dumophobia: someone who hates or distrusts the Bushes, their policies, their election results, etc.
Dumus seems appropriate for another reason. Hmmm, I wonder why.
BTW, I should have said gambophilia, etc. referred to the condition of having those problems or characteristics. Gambophiliac more correctly would refer to the person…
I’ve never tried putting meat in my sandwedge, but if it would take a few strokes off my golf game, I’m willing to try it. What meatosity do you recommend, EggNogg?
My word is derivative of another word, and it’s used as an all-purpose expression of frustration.
Jim B I reccomend you look for a book called ‘The meaning of Liff’ by Douglas Adams. You might like it.
I also like inventing words. but only if they are really stupid ones like ploon, fleesewoggin, murdleflang etc…